Cloning Instances

When you clone a Cloud SQL instance, you create a new instance that is a copy
of the source instance, but completely independent. After the cloning operation
is complete, changes to the source instance are not reflected in the clone, and
vice versa.

The source instance configuration (activation policy, database flags,
authorized IP addresses, and so on) is copied to the clone. Instance IP
addresses and replicas are not copied; you must configure these items explicitly
on the clone.

You cannot clone a replica. You can clone an instance that was cloned from
another instance.

Cloning an instance

Console

Go to the Cloud SQL Instances page in the Google Cloud Platform Console.